Teaching + Organizing + Training

I am a solo theater performer that creates docu-adventure plays about my life. I also teach physical theater and help design, organize and lead creative actions for social change.

Teaching/ Organizing

Sane Energy Project ( Based in NYC)

Community Engagement Coordinator March- December 2017

Sane Energy Project is a New York based organization working toward a sane energy future that includes shutting down fossil fuel infrastructure and building a just transition toward renewable energy.

Camp Wonderful ( Western Massachusetts)

Camp Counselor and Teacher August 2017-Present

Camp Wonderful is a digital detox, fun-filled summer camp for adults in the woods. I led 5 "playshops" in physical storytelling, singing self-defense, contact improv, healing movement and site-specific theater and facilitated games and discussion with a group of campers.

Beautiful Trouble (Traveling, Based in NYC)

Creative Action Trainer 2014-Present

Beautiful Trouble is a book, web toolbox and international network of artist-activist trainers whose mission is to make grassroots movements more creative and more effective.

• Co-facilitated two day workshop for 60 organizers from social justice, climate justice, economic justice from across the States in NYC.

• Led a workshop at Harvard University with Responsible Investment at Harvard Coalition to help reinvigorate their campaign against Harvard's timber industry by focusing on narrative, visuals and escalating pressure.

• Led a workshop at University of Maine at Farmington with a group of 30 students introducing them to using artistic principles in activism and civil disobedience.

• Led two workshops in Boca Raton, Florida to engage artists in climate action

• Led a workshop for CUNY grad students on creative activism tactics that they might utilize in their struggles within the institution

Resist Spectra (Westchester, NY)

Trainer/ Organizer 2015-Present

• Built a grassroots campaign against a fracked gas pipeline coming within a hundred feet of Indian Point nuclear power plant threatening schools, churches, houses and local community

• Organized Non-violent Direct Action training and implemented with hundreds of people

• Led many meetings, went to trial and organized acts of civil disobedience to protest the construction

Living Theatre (Touring, Based in NYC)

Associate Producer, Actor 2005-Present

-Co-developed tour across 8 cities in Europe

• Set up workshops with refugee and immigrant communities and oversaw development of street performances

• Co-facilitated workshops on Living Theater techniques

• Performed in and co-created radical street performances

• Performed in a 5 hour ritual protest intervention in the British Museum with BP or Not BP and Art Not Oil against the BP sponsorship of the Sinking Cities exhibit

-Helped conceive of and organize Know Your Rites tour across 20 cities in the USA

• Performed in the production of Seven Meditations on Political Sado-Masochism

• Organized the route and set up many of the actions, performances and housing along the way for a 12 member company

-Performed in several plays over a decade of being in the company including a two person show with Co-Founder of the Living, Judith Malina in “Maudie and Jane”, a tour of “Mysteries and Smaller Pieces” in Ecuador, in the ensemble of “Korach” and “Histories of The World”

Volunteered at Katsikas Refugee Camp (Katsikas, Greece)

Teacher/ Organizer 2016

• Helped design a curriculum of classes for youth and adult refugees that included English, Arts, Theater, Yoga and Physical Fitness

Refugee Puppet Theater Workshop (Kirchdorff, Austria)

Teacher/ Co-Director 2016

• Co-taught a puppetry theater workshop with a group of refugees from Iraq and Somalia through a community radio station in Austria. We helped the participants develop short performances that they then shared with the community and have since been invited to perform in schools and other venues in town

• Initiated bicycle voyages out to the Rockaways to assist post Hurricane Sandy; carrying out supplies and food with trailers, bringing bicycled generators to power cell phones, leading groups out to help clean houses

Occupy Broadway (NY, NY)

Co-Facilitator, Organizer 2011

• Curated and orchestrated 24 hours straight of performance in a privately-owned public space

Physical Storytelling Workshop at Pioneer Works (Brooklyn, NY)

Teaching residency 2015

• Led a 5 week master class on physical theater and self-scripting which culminated in a showing for invited guests